Description:
"A landmark book...Team of Rivals on steroids...It is hard to imagine that the year will bring forth a Lincoln book of more originality or consequence." --Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal
An eye-opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory.
Brief description: Matthew Pinsker is one of our foremost historians of Lincoln and the Civil War. He holds the Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History and is director of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: A landmark book.... Team of Rivals on steroids.... Mr. Pinsker's deep research, interpretive daring and fine writing advance the case with panache. He reinterprets even Lincoln's best-known private and public writings with unerring applicability and deploys a surprising number of observations that contemporaries shared with each other about Lincoln--tidbits that have largely escaped notice by other scholars....Boss Lincoln fills a gap in the literature and ensures lively discussion into the future. It is hard to imagine that the year will bring forth a Lincoln book of more originality or consequence.--Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal